Technical Program Manager III, Infrastructure Resource Management, YouTube

Google•Mountain View, CA

2d•$163,000 - $237,000

About The Position

To ensure that YouTube's production infrastructure is optimally provisioned and managed to support the platform's organic growth and launches. This is achieved by effectively managing operational expenses and careful alignment against capacity planning for data centers, computing, storage, and accelerators, and ensuring that the all the YouTube teams has the relevant infrastructure resources necessary to meet YouTube's evolving needs. As a YouTube Resource Management Technical Program Manager, you'll be responsible for evaluating our current processes and systems and proposing solutions to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in supporting YouTube's rapid growth and product launches. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams across Google to forecast capacity needs, ensure efficient resource utilization, drive financial accountability, and minimize operational overhead. Your work will play a crucial role in enabling YouTube's success and ensuring that our infrastructure is optimized to meet the demands of our growing platform. At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in program management.
Experience in infrastructure capacity planning.
Experience in resource forecasting for systems.

Nice To Haves

5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Python, or R) to extract and interpret insights.

Responsibilities

Lead infrastructure resource efficiency program that drives more efficient use of resources in the YouTube fleet, and deliver towards YouTube's efficiency goals for compute and storage.
Develop process, tools, metrics for managing the efficiency programs in partnership with Engineering and SRE teams.
Manage flex pools and review regressions due to product launches and drive corrective actions with engineering teams.
Work on continuous improvement initiatives related to capacity provisioning and request to launch lifecycle velocity. Partner closely with stakeholders regarding infrastructure compute and storage resource planning.
Manage multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Use technical judgment to drive project delivery, technology reviews, challenge proposals and build consensus.